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Statue of Liberty Museum glass has been retrofitted for bird safety
For Feathered Friends

New York’s FLACO Act is a start, but bird safety legislation could go further

“One of New York’s Flyest”

Following the passing of the famous Central Park owl, legislators have renamed the Bird Safe Buildings Act the “FLACO Act”

Building Skins of Chicago

Facades+ will come to the Windy City on October 6

Bye Bye Birdie

Birdsong Brackenridge spins an ecological message where it’s needed most

people in front of cork pin-up board
Coming in Hot

Daily digest: RIOS shows off its new office in Austin, an update on the Flatiron auction, and more news

tall wooden birdhouse
Sounds of Summer

For the Birds, now on view at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, explores biodiversity through architect-designed follies

exterior of papaya king, a manhattan eatery
Long Live The King

Daily digest: A hot dog-slinging Upper East Side mainstay faces demolition, RIBA reacts to chaotic political shakeup, and more

Bird-Brained

Steven Holl, SO–IL, Walter Hood, and others create avian abodes for new exhibition at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

A mountain of birds killed by flying into the glass of the world trade centers
Collision Crisis

Why do glassy towers keep killing so many birds?

A swarm of birds over the arm of a peninsula in Texas's high island
Top Flight

New facilities in a postindustrial Texan landscape welcomes migratory birds—and onlookers

The national aquarium in baltimore, with a jutting triangular glass topper
Bird-Safe Baltimore

Baltimore’s National Aquarium will make its iconic glass pyramid bird safe

Aerial image of the Rubenstein Forum at Dusk
Post-Tensioned Session

Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Rubenstein Forum features gargantuan bird-safe glass curtain walls with zinc frames

illustration of new snowdon aviary
Bye-Bye Birdies

Foster + Partners revamp of Cedric Price’s famed Snowdon Aviary will be monkeys-only

spertus institute chicago
Truly for the Birds

The House of Representatives passes bipartisan Bird-Safe Buildings Act

owl sitting on top of Notre Dame du Haut. the bird's body fades into the roof of the church

Legendary Bird Home 2020

Photo of a multistory copper torch foregrounded against the Statue of Liberty
Ready for her Close-up

Statue of Liberty Museum by FXCollaborative opens this week

Photo of a glass-testing tunnel, which looks like a long wood shed
For the Birds

Partnership announced to protect birds from death by architecture

Photo of Aqua Tower Chicago
Avian Awareness

Congress may follow architects’ lead in constructing bird-safe buildings

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